“She lost a baby girl just 11 months before I was born, after trying for years to conceive. To get pregnant only months after the tragic loss of a child was, in my parents eyes, a gift from God.”

“She lost a baby girl just 11 months before I was born, after trying for years to conceive. To get pregnant only months after the tragic loss of a child was, in my parents eyes, a gift from God.”
“I couldn’t understand what I had done so wrong in my life to prevent me from having something that should come to my body so naturally.”
“I’m sleeping with long johns on from now on!”
“That’s when I saw you. A beautiful young woman who presumably doesn’t yet have children of her own. Another perfect (albeit, kidless) mom, just as I had been once upon a time. I recognized the look in your eyes.”
“Even though Gage is 1,000 miles away, I still had a great prom! It meant so much to me to have Gage be a part of my night, even though he couldn’t actually be here with me.”
“As he caught the baby and handed him up to Mom’s chest, in that moment, he became a dad. That connection could never be severed.”
“Not a whole lot of people could say that their dad walked them down the aisle, AND that their step-dad officiated their wedding. I am one of the fortunate people that could.”
“His overwhelming emotion became even more apparent as they exchanged vows.”
“Don’t forget the bracelet with the heart goes on the left with her watch. The other two bracelets go on the right.”
“I felt paralyzed. ‘What does that even MEAN?!’ She’s right there in front of me!! She’s inside of me! How DARE you tell me that! She’s RIGHT THERE! I SEE her!!'”